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Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
Schelling, T. (1969). Models of segregation. The American Economic Review, 59(2), 488-493
(Schelling won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005)
Do the Indian and Bangladeshi communities have different customs regarding surnames that would lead to a more homogenous naming. Because the results seem disproportionate and shrink massively if you move the slider to the 2nd most popular name or further.
That said, whether it's disproportionately common amongst Indian ethnic groups or otherwise, you won't meet that many Patels even in the relevant parts of London. To put things into perspective, the population of Greater London is ~7 million, and there are entire UK sources: http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Statistics.aspx?name=PATEL... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5040755/Britains-most...
If you want a better picture of the relative sizes of UK ethnic groups by district (amongst many other demographic factors) then the interactive map at www.censusprofiler.org is awesome.
This beautifully illustrates Thomas Schelling's racial segregation model, for which he coined the term "Tipping Point" 30 years before Malcolm Gladwell popularized it: Schelling, T. (1969). Models of segregation. The American Economic Review, 59(2), 488-493 (Schelling won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005)
The next generation moves away form these ghettos and assimilates into the rest of London, after a few generations there are only hotspots of the original immigrants left in these places and then usually only if there are strong religous reasons.
If you go into London through the east end (Brick lane etc) the names of pubs are Huguenot (from early 1800s) then there are names of Jewish merchants and tailors on the top floors of buildings (from the early 1900s) then the ground floor is now Bangladeshi.
Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
This beautifully illustrates Thomas Schelling's racial segregation model, for which he coined the term "Tipping Point" 30 years before Malcolm Gladwell popularized it: Schelling, T. (1969). Models of segregation. The American Economic Review, 59(2), 488-493 (Schelling won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005)
A time based view would be interesting. The next generation moves away form these ghettos and assimilates into the rest of London, after a few generations there are only hotspots of the original immigrants left in these places and then usually only if there are strong religous reasons. If you go into London through the east end (Brick lane etc) the names of pubs are Huguenot (from early 1800s) then there are names of…
- by last name: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/index.php?taal=eng
- by first name: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/english
Most of it is Dutch only, but both have historical data (the one for first names in particular is nice)